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“We control nothing but influence everything.” Political scientist Brian Klaas on how every decision we make – both massive and miniscule – shapes our futures.

She was searching for perfection – until she discovered what she truly needed by letting go of what didn’t fit.

“Amid the chaos, he remembered his life being eerily calm as he knew it wasn’t if, but when they would be hacked to pieces. He just kept kicking.”

Due to chaos, it was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

Effective leadership requires long-term strategy — not tactical reactions.

There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.

Physicist Sean Carroll on entropy, complexity, and the origins of life:

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In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.

Propofol, a drug commonly used for general anesthesia, derails the brain’s normal balance between stability and excitability.

You know ChatGPT, but how much do you know about the company that made it? Journalist Karen Hao joins us to talk OpenAI’s latest implosion.

MIT Scientist Jason Soderblom describes how the NASA mission will study the geology and composition of the surface of Jupiter’s water-rich moon and assess its astrobiological potential.

Businesses are realizing that rapid disruption without stability can lead to long-term failure. A new era of thoughtful, sustainable growth is emerging.

How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.

As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.

Kublai Khan wasn’t the first ruler in history to issue paper money, but his Yuan dynasty did take unprecedented action to ensure this revolutionary form of currency retained its value.

The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.

Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.

Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.

Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.

For J.R.R. Tolkien, the single most important element of a fairy tale was the dramatic reversal of misfortune in the story’s ending.

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Throughout the world, traditional political organizations are increasingly seen as dysfunctional. But can democracies live without them?

A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.

The artistic and the mathematical mind are not so far apart.

The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.

The Serenity Prayer is nice — until the missiles come raining down on your city.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Bram Stoker’s mother survived a terrible cholera outbreak and recounted the ghastly scenes to her son years later.

A $30,000 electric vehicle with 400 miles of range that charges in under 10 minutes remains a pipe dream over the near future.